53 Chap. 38. f i n Expo f a tion upon the BookofJo E. Yerf. 4, We thy people , have alwayes , -or in ali revolutions of time, dwelt or sheltered our felves in thee : and then at the fecond verle, they confefs not only their being in him throughout all generations, but his moll bleflfd Being before all generations; Before Mountain :weredrought forth, or ever thoubadff formed the Earth, and the world ; even from everlafling to everlafling, .thou art God, The firfi Being is aneternal Being, and therefore the Prophet faith (Ifa, 57. 15.) God inhabiteth Eternity. The Eter- rervtrn, eß nal dwells in Eternity. But what is Eternity ? One of the Anei- interminabilss eatscalleth it , The perfiapofegion of a boundlefs or limitlejc Irfe, vita tow frmut whole, and all atonce. Eternity bath no terms, nor bounds of e:perfeJa pof beginning or ending : 'Tis a poffeflion of all at once, there it ;go. onf lei . nothing pail, or to come; but all is aiwayes prefent to God,. Note, Fourthly; God it the fountain of all being hebath givena being toall things, The Apofile Paul (A5ls I7. 28.) difcourfingwith the Atbe- nian: , having laid , In himwe live, andmove , and have our be- ing; convinceth them further by that layingof their own Poets,, for we arealfo his off-fpring ;=We fpring from him as from a rootor fountain. With him te the fountain of live: (Pfal. 36. 9.) evenof natural life , as well as of fpiritual and eternal Every life, eve- ry being, is but a (imam iffuing from fehovah. And asevery life is from God , fo alto is the being of all things without life. The Lord gave the livelefs Earth its being , its beginning, SDme Naturalifis have afferted the eternity of theWorld , and fo the eternity of the Earth : They could not compafs which wayor how theWorld could have a beginning, and therefore fail it had none. Here wehave theFounder of the World , God himfelf, teaching man this Divine Philofophy about the beginning of the World , and taking it tohimfelf , I laid the foundation: of the Earth: When the Heathen `Philofopher read what Mofes had written concerning the Creation of the World ; Thue. the Hea- vens and the Earthwere fraifhed , andall the haft of them (Ger. 2. I.) He prefently Paid, The man fpeaks wonders , bat hora doth he prove what he bath fpoken ? Where are his demonfiratìons ?- He would pit- Mofe: to his proof : but Mofes's; proof was faith in the teflimony of God. Through faith we underftand that the dkorldt
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